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Hard up
adjective
Word Frequency:
0.3
Definitions
1.
adjective
Lacking money; impecunious; in financial difficulties.
2.
adjective
Lacking anything.
"We were hard up for amusements."
3.
adjective
(by extension) Desperate.
"Dating him? She must be hard up."
Synonyms
poor
penurious
penniless
impecunious
pinched
in straitened circumstances
hard-up
disadvantaged
strapped for cash
strapped for money
emptyhanded
cash-strapped
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